Quest for Identity

America Since 1945

By: Randall Woods

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Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present.

It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments of American life.

While political history is emphasized, Woods also discusses in equal measure cultural matters and socio-economic problems. Dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration characterized the period as much as the counterculture, the growth of television and the Internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space. The pageantry, drama, irony, poignancy and humor of the American journey since World War II are all here.

About the Author

Randall Bennett Woods is John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He has written widely on twentieth-century American history, including Dawning of the Cold War, Changing of the Guard, and Fulbright: A Biography, which won both the Ferrell and Ledbetter Prizes. He was also editor of Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent.

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'... Woods provides a good read, a comprehensive overview and a useful resource without losing his political and cultural acuity.' International Affairs

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Preface	p. xi
The Republic in Transition: Demobilization and Reconversion	p. 1
The Heritage of War	p. 1
Truman, Demobilization, and Reconversion	p. 7
To Secure These Rights	p. 17
Civil Liberties under Siege	p. 20
The Election of 1948	p. 23
The Fair Deal	p. 27
The Origins of the Cold War	p. 32
Roots of Conflict	p. 32
The Birth of Containment	p. 39
The Cold War in Asia	p. 52
The Second Red Scare	p. 64
The Heritage of Fear	p. 70
Staying the Course: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Politics of Moderation	p. 73
A Changing of the Guard: The Election of 1952	p. 74
Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism	p. 78
Farmers, Workers, and the Economy	p. 80
Redefining Federal Power	p. 83
Black America and the Struggle for Civil Equality	p. 86
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 92
Little Rock	p. 93
The Civil Rights Act of 1957	p. 96
Containing Communism and Managing the Military-Industrial Complex: The Eisenhower Administration and the Cold War	p. 99
John Foster Dulles and "Rollback"	p. 100
The Bricker Amendment	p. 101
Containment in Asia: The Formosa Crisis	p. 104
Brinkmanship and "The New Look"	p. 105
Vietnam and the Demise of French Colonialism	p. 107
Offending the Good Neighbor: Eisenhower and Latin America	p. 108
The Suez Crisis	p. 111
The Election of 1956	p. 115
Soviet-American Relations and the Nuclear Arms Race	p. 116
Capitalism and Conformity: American Society, 1945-1960	p. 121
Postwar Economic Boom	p. 121
Conformity and Materialism	p. 126
A Homogeneous Religion	p. 140
Poverty in America	p. 143
The Beat Generation	p. 144
Intellectual and Artistic Life	p. 145
Liberalism Reborn: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Politics of Activism	p. 155
Liberalism Transformed	p. 155
The Election of 1960	p. 158
The New Frontier	p. 164
The Second Reconstruction	p. 170
The Death of a President	p. 177
Taking the Stage	p. 178
The Civil Rights Act of 1964	p. 182
The Crusade for Economic Opportunity	p. 185
The Election of 1964	p. 186
The Great Society	p. 191
From Conservationism to Environmentalism	p. 201
Shooting for the Stars	p. 204
The Wages of Globalism: Foreign Affairs During the Kennedy-Johnson Era	p. 208
A Call to Arms: JFK and the Cold War	p. 208
The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs	p. 212
The Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 215
A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations	p. 218
The Congo	p. 220
Vietnam: Staying the Course	p. 221
The Domino Theory Ascendent: LBJ and Vietnam	p. 224
Revolt at Home	p. 235
Managing the Cold War: The Rest of the World	p. 238
Cracks in the Alliance	p. 244
The Middle East Cauldron: The 1967 War	p. 244
The Dividing of America: Vietnam, Black Power, the Counterculture, and the Election of 1968	p. 248
Black Power: The Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 248
The New Left	p. 256
Student Protest and Vietnam	p. 258
The Counterculture	p. 259
Vietnam: A Bloody Stalemate	p. 263
Tet	p. 266
The Pueblo Incident	p. 269
Turning Point: The Election of 1968	p. 270
Realpolitik or Imperialism? Nixon, Kissinger, and American Foreign Policy	p. 281
The New Realism	p. 282
Vietnam: "The Will to Win"	p. 285
"Balance of Terror": The U.S., USSR, and the Arms Race	p. 288
Vietnamization	p. 291
Congress and the "End the War" Movement	p. 298
The Unravelling of the Vietnam Consensus	p. 301
The Politics of Diplomacy	p. 305
Detente, Linkage, and Soviet-American Relations	p. 308
Denouement in Vietnam	p. 310
Containing Latin America: Nixon and Chile	p. 313
The Yom Kippur War	p. 314
The Limits of Expediency: Richard M. Nixon and the American Presidency	p. 320
Playing to the Silent Majority: Nixon's Domestic Policies	p. 321
Watergate: The Constitution under Siege	p. 340
From Confidence to Anxiety: American Society, 1960-1980	p. 351
An Economy in Transition	p. 352
The Rebellious Generation	p. 357
Women's Liberation	p. 363
Gay Liberation	p. 370
The Chicano Movement	p. 371
Native Americans	p. 373
The Culture of Poverty	p. 376
Public Education under Fire	p. 378
Fundamentalism versus Ecumenicalism: Religion in Modern America	p. 379
The Mainstreaming of Environmentalism	p. 384
Television and the Homogenization of America	p. 386
Music: From "Folk" to "Rock" and Beyond	p. 388
High Culture	p. 392
Literature and American Society	p. 393
Governing in a Malaise: The Presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter	p. 399
The Interim President	p. 400
Unfunded Liberalism: The Carter Presidency and Domestic Affairs	p. 406
Human Rights and a Hard Line: The Carter Presidency and Foreign Affairs	p. 416
The Carter Malaise	p. 424
The Culture of Narcissism: The Reagan Era	p. 438
The Emergence of the New Right	p. 438
The "Me Decade"	p. 443
Ronald Reagan	p. 444
Supply-Side Economics	p. 446
From Social Security to the Environment	p. 448
Spending the Way to Victory: Reagan and the Cold War	p. 450
Sandinistas and Contras: Central America and the Cold War	p. 452
Disaster in Lebanon	p. 454
The "Great Communicator"	p. 455
The Election of 1984	p. 456
Four More Years	p. 458
The "Culture of Greed"	p. 460
Terrorism as an Issue	p. 462
The Iran-Contra Affair	p. 464
Battling the "Evil Empire"	p. 467
Glasnost and Perestroika	p. 468
Reagan the Conservative	p. 470
The Paradox of America	p. 473
Laissez-Faire in Education	p. 473
Popular Culture	p. 474
A Penchant for Hypocrisy	p. 478
The AIDS Epidemic	p. 479
In Search of Balance: America into the Twenty-First Century	p. 481
Brave New Conservatism: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush	p. 482
"It's the Economy, Stupid": The Election of 1992	p. 503
America the Diverse	p. 506
The Female Dilemma	p. 511
The Culture Wars	p. 513
The Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton	p. 514
Clinton Abroad: Foreign Affairs in the 90s	p. 520
Revolt of the Middle Class	p. 523
Four More Years	p. 526
Impeachment	p. 528
Election 2000	p. 536
9/11 and the War on Terror	p. 540
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